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A tremendous tale of
i'?/\:, v;v". '
Carriages, Trains
Bears?Big lot of
^sorted Dolls and Toys
Ireat Sacrifice.
Winners of Prizes
Will Be Announced
Monday Morning
fSStvanajmwvtgcayflSj
Imirrr ~?~ /
' ' At Dinner.
v"; Mr. and Mr?. Arthur Brown, of Guf
? fey' street, entertained Mr. and Mrs.
John Brown and Miss 'Dana Brown
^at' nndier yesterday.
Diamond street M. E. cliurcb, J. B.
Workman, pastor?Sunday school at
):$&! C. N. Martin, superintendent;
jfiBmSgfe 10:45, "Facing the Now
i1'' Juui6r League. 2:1)0; Daisy
^;Watklns, superintendent; Epworth
League, ; 6:30; Margaret Workman.
l4k'der; <ibttage prayer meetings ut
^fS9" fiiesdiy evening; prayer service
l^ctnesday at 7:30, "The End of the
$ar/i?>Thursday from 2 p. m. until
J'fp'clbefe midnight the pastor and
[ili?r;wlll keep open house and -will
glad to have the members and
^ 'iid&-of< the church to feel free to
come and go as they may find it con
^fiieSfto'do. Let us remember to
jiia^for the onointlng so much need
je&ttfcth(S revival campaign which Is
' tc^b^gln January 10. This "Home-like
:C&'urch" Is always glad to welcome
grangers. Come and worship with
Sus&Mlss adAms will sing at the even
lBg:: service Sunday. You will be de
lighted to hear her.
. Entertained at Dinner.
vjr.-atld-Mr 9. Carl D. Springer, of
3uftby>jSweet, entertained at dinner
The guests included Mrs.
arnes and daughters, Misses
Marguerite, Marie and Ruth and Miss
Madge Barnes.
? Went to Indianapolis,
fcand Mrs. Fred Jenkins arc in
..jjiiaiiolls, where they were called
by the serious lilness of the former's
: At Christian Chapel.
Mr." Rawlins Bunner. of Pittsburgh,
gave a very interesting talk at the
'Christian church on Columbia street
laateVening. Ho will also speak this
evening at 7:30 o'clock, Sunday morn
10:30 and Sunday evening at
'7:30. .
?
Personals.
lilir. 'and Mrs. Herndon Fawcett and
sSii, James, ot Clarksburg, are guests
"ofjlitr. and Mrs, James Thomas on
nond street.
p.*5j6hn Swartz Is spending a week
tlr relatives at Salem, Oliio.
rr.vBnd'Mrs. Dent ;Powell, of Pitts
ghT are spending the holidays here.
T^'BesslO'Morrow went to Mor
"r Thursday to visit hor sister,
_ Jorge Frum.
a Harry Drummond left Friday
timing for his home at Grafton,
ISTORIA
? For Infants and Children
Uts For Over 30 Years
MM
bears
iffloatort of
iffy Feeling
TOO MUCH TURKEY.
?'?ikfc'T.f,
Try Dlke'? Hepatic Salt*?
It win'fllvrqulck reMe,?
Hol|Drug Co.
Where Quality and
Cleanliness c? bend in .
hand.. ?' -
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. Ilkf>
Scene from "The Woman He Could Not Buy" at the Grand tonight.
where he will spend some time.
Mr. and Mrs. Crlser, ot Keysor, have
been the guests of llr. and Mrs. Jesse
Rex on Guffey street for several days.
Miss Russia Hickman, of Moats
vlllc. arrived lierc yesterday to visit
Mr. and Mrs. A. Dorr Hutchinson.
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Carpenter are
visiting relatives at Colfax.
Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Jacobs spent to
; day at Morgantown the guests of Mr.
and Mrs. T. Bennett.
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Little were
guests of relatives at Colffix yester
day.
" Miss Gertrude McElfresli, ot Win
Iiehl, is visiting here for a fe\t' days.
WILL INSPECT
STATE TROOPS
ORDERS FOR THE ANNUAL TOUR
HAVE BEEN ISSUED BY GEN.
JOHN C. BOND.
MAJOR WALLACE, U. S. A., WILL BE
IN FAIRMONT ON FEBRUARY
12-13.
CHARLESTON, Dec. 26.?Orders
have been issued by Adjutant General
John C. Bond for the annual inspection
of tho West Virginia National Guard.
The inspection of all the organizations
except the medicitl corps will be made
by Major William Wallace, United
States Army, who Is detailed ns Inspec
tor-lnstructor of tills state. The Inspec
tion of the medical corps and sanitary
troops will be made by Major M. A. W.
Shocklcy, who Is stationed nt Colum
bus, Ohio, and who is inspector-instruc
tor of the sanitary Iroops of the several
states, including West Virginia.
Following is tho intinerary for the
inspection:
Welch, January 30; Bluetleld, Jan
uary 21; Charleston, Januury 25-2(5;
Huntington, February 1, 2 and 3; Ra
venswood, February 4; Spencer, Feb
ruary 5; Parkernlmrg, February S-9;
Wellsburg, February 10; Littleton,
Fchruray 11; Fairmont, February 12
13; Morgantown, February 10; Terra
Alia, February 17; Clarksburg, Febru
ary IS; Buckhaunon, February 19;
Weston, February 20; Sutton, February
22; Fayetteviilo, February 27; Pied
mont, March 4-5; Charleston, March 12.
Medical Corps and Sanitary Troops?
Piedmont, February 3; Charleston,
February 5; Bluellold; February 8.
COURT NEWS
Deeda Filed.
Deeds were yesterday filed with the
county clerk for recording as follows:
0. J. Graham and wife to Rachael
T. Rice a parcel of land in Graham
Heights addition to the city of Fair
mont. Consideration, $100.
Thomas L. Holt to Asby Rice a par
cel of land in Paw Paw district. Con
sideration, $1,000. *
John H. Burns and wife to Albert
j Harris a parcel of land in the village
of Rivesvilio. Consideration, $1,600.
License* Issued.
The following marriage licenses
wore yesterday issued by the county
cleric as follows:
Lldyd Murphy, 21, and Dessle Dock,
22, both of White Rook.
Dallla. L. O'Dell, 20, and Lelia Mar
tin, 19, both of Hawk's Nest. J. A.
! Martin, father of the girl, gave his
consent in writing, Joseph J. O'Dell,
father ot the boy, gave his consent in
porson.
Mlltoa Q. Stevens, 27, and Birdie
Phillips, 21, both of Fairmont
Willie* C. Wright, 22, and Minnie A,
Tennant, 25, both ot Falrview. '
?ffthssen G.. Roberts, 24. and Elsie
Bartholow, 17, .both of Fairmont. Curt
I Bartholow,-father,of the girl, gave his
consent, la n.
Predictions of Present Prophets
Recall Career of Joanna Southcott
"In view of (lie strong Bible evidence
we consider it an established truth
that tho final end or the kingdom of
this world and the full establishment
of tho Kingdom of Qotl will be acuum
pllBlied by the end of A. D. 1914."
This was the prediction made a quar
ter of a century ago by tho Rot. Clins.
T. Russell, the leader of the sect for
mally known as International Unite
Students, but popularly as "Millenial
Bawnors."
The end of 1914 is now at hand, and,
while the numerous disciples of Rus
*?H are confidently awaiting the usher
ing in of the great day, the vast multi
tude of unregenerate humanity are
"standing pat" and going about their
customary duties.
The predictions of Ilev. Russell, who
has given publicity to his views in the
press of nearly all nations, and of a
host of oilier present-day prophets who
?see It i? the European conflagration
the beginning of tho end of the world, I
ore reminiscent of tho career of Jo- J
tanna Scuthcott, an English religious 1
i-nthuslajt and prophetess who had a
host of followers in rite eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries.
This Sunday will mark the centen
ary of the death of Joanna Southcolt.
as she pased away, to the consterna
tion anil dismay of her ardent follow
ers. on Dec. 27. 1814. just as modern
prophets see in the present war a fore
warning .of the Day of Judgment, so
Joanna Southcott perceived in the Na
poleonic conflicts the promise of a
Epeedy end of the world. She wnsc
not without that quality called mag- i
lietlsm, and she convinced thousands
C English people that the possessed
mysterious and supernatural powers of
divination.
_J?annrt Southcott wns born about 1
li50. of a poor and obscure family, and I
she herself remainod poor and ob
scure until slio was about forty years I
c!d. It was then that she began to
preach her strange doctrines, declar-1
ing that she was the woman mentioned
in tho twelfth chapter of the Book of
Revelation.
Sho (inserted that Josus was destin
ed to return to the earth and that she
was divinely appointed to become his
mother. The American and French
revolutions and tho subsequent Na
poleonic wars helped to convln'co manv
that sho was a true prophetess, for
. om 1,10 nrst days or lier "mission" sli?
proclaimed that the lilrth of tho Ales
f ah would follow a long period of tor
r ble and bloody warfare, such as the
world had never witnossed before
Although practically without educa
tion, Joanna Southcott had learned to
read and write, and alio turned out
vast quantities of "literature" in olab
oration of her views. Most of her "In
fn/lh ,r?VoIa"ons v^re unlntelllgblo,
but tha. made them all the more con
vincing to her deludod adherents. Jo
anna, for all her fervent belief that
the world was soon to come to an end,
L? overlook tho possibilities of
profit and for years she obtained an
excellent income from the sale of
mys tic seals" which were to insure
salvation to those who wore them on
the day of final accenting.
Although Joanna did not obtain that
wide publicity for her notions which
is posslblo today, the delusions she
fostered spread all over England and
cvon overseas, and whenever she ap
peared In public sho was hailed with
the revwence befitting one who was to
recome the mother of a god.
Tie last year of Josanrm's life was
10 period of her greatest glory. Early
. 1814, when the prophetess wag
Ig&feMBy old," she, aimun-;
izra?? rawonjan
;?i?ecome a mother!
the long Belies of Napoleonic wars.
This was certainly the time of times
tor tile ushering In of "the Kingdom
oC God." Those who liad scoffed a
Josnnna's pretensions now became her
ucvoted followers. *ager to buy the
magic seals which would assure them
or an eternal home in the realm of the
saved. Several physicians were con
vinced that Josanna's liopes of moth
erhood wore about to bo realized.
Willie the great majority of Josan
rr.'s disciples were ignorant and un
lettered folk, there were a few edu
cated per.pl among them. Three cler^
cymen were among those who were o.
this "army of the Lord." One Angli
can clergyman was so earnest in hi
devotion to Joanna's claimB that he
publicly declared he would resign h
livin gif the Messiah was not born to
"the holy Joanna" at the expected
time.
In London and Its immediate vicin
ity alone the prophetess had' mors
than a hundred thousand converts. All
over England people mado prepara
tions to don their celestial garments.
in December of 1814 Joanna was
taken serfously ill- she gradually
grew worse, and became delirious, but
in her lucid moments tho deluded wo
man expresed misgivings, but assert
ed that ir she had been guilty of de
ception. she herself had been the vic
tim of some evil spirit.
On tho twonty-seventli of Decembor,
1P14, Joanna Southcott died. Her fol
lowers at first refused to believe that
she was really dead, and insisted on
keeping her body until it was in a
stage ot active decomposition.
A postmortem examination of the
body proved that diseaso was respon
sible for tlie appearanco which had
resulted in so widely spreading the de
I lusion.
Even after Joanna Southcott had
been laid in her grave, many of the
! most devoted of her followers retain
j ed their faith. They declared that sho
would soon rise again, with the Infant
Messiah in her arms, and that her ap
pearance would usher In the period of
the worldjs regeneration.'
Thousands of Joanna's male follow
ers took a solemn oatli that they
would not shave or cut their hair
until Joanna's resurrection. As
lasts ob half a century ago there
were left in England two or three men
with beards that reached their waists
and long, flowing hair, relics of the
Southcott delusion. In 1864 an Eng
lish writer, visiting Chatham, in Kent,
wrote that "In this -vicinity there are
several famlllos of Joanna Southcott's
u'sclples residing together, the men
remarkable for the great length of
their beards and hair, and all for a
marked peculiarity ot manners and ap
pearance."
For years after her death the grave
ot Joanna Southcott, in the burial
ground of the chapel of St. John's
Wood, in London, was a place of pious
pilgrimage. A stone was erected to
mark the grave, and on it her follow
ers, unshaken In their faith. Inscribed
her claims to divinity.
Thousands of other prophets, before
and since Joanna's days, have predict
ed the end of the world. In all proba
bility, thousands more will arise in the
centuries to come. Each has claimed
and will claim his deluded-followers.
Like time and space, human credulity
fe Inflnlto and without known limita
tions.
? U/-.U.
Idan'A i tu? UU
I Louis, Mo. The
curative ralue of H
Peruna it truly H
.?wonderful. I think H
It especially val- ?
liable as & specific ? M ,
for catarrh of the H
I system, and for a H
man -who has trav- H
cled for years as VR
I have and -who Is A9HHHH|g3M j
certainly exposed 1MB
to Irregular meals
and uncomfortable mmHm
I sleeping accomrao
flaticms, Peruna Is BBSi
one of his best ||
and most needed SM
traveling compan- gfifl
Ions. It tiirtws BBMpBfiMlfl
off disease., and ?
I keeps him -well. I
therefore heartily recommend It."
Thoso who object to liquid medi?l
cines can now oroouro Psruna Tab?
| lits*
HIS SLEEP TALK
CAUSES WIFE TO
SHOOTAWOMAN
MRS. PORTER INVADES MRS. K.
SPRING'S RESIDENCE
IN CHICAGO.
SENDS TWO BULLETS INTO HER
THIGH AFTER DENOUN
CING HER.
SAYS HUBBY IN DREAM MADE A
DATE WITH THE
BEAUTY DOCTOR.
CHICAGO. Dec. 26.?Because of the
somniloquenty of her spouse, Mrs.
Elizabeth Porter Is In Jail and Mrs.
Kathryn Spring, who is a beauty doc
tor, a -widow and ? grandmother of
extraordinary Juvenility, Is In Saint
Ann's hospital with two bullets in her
thigh.
Mrs. Porter Invaded Mrs. Spring's
beauty parlor last evening, denounced
tier and then blazed away. Afterward
Mrs. Porter told the police:
"My husband talks In his sleep.
Once I heard him clearly tell some
woman of whom he was dreaming
that he would meet her at Mrs. Mar
shall Southwlck's house. So J went
to Mrs. Southwlck's at No. 6212 Madi
son street and pleaded with her to
tell the name of the woman my hus
band was to meet. She said she'd tell
me if I guessed the right name.
"Soma neighbors had told me about
Mrs. Spring and I named htr. Mrs.
South wick nodded that I was right
and began to cry.
Thought of Baby Crazed Her.
At this point Mrs. Poster paused In
her narrative to ask:
"Ho wis the woman I shot? I hopn
she lives. You see. I didn't mean to
shoot her. I became suddenly insane
when I faced her. The neighbors told
me sh3 had said many mean things
about my baby ? that my husband
wasn't its father?after sho had taken
him away from me.
"Wlier I saw her I screamed:
?You've got my husband, hut for
Ood'a saks leave my baby alone!' I
struck her and she ccjne for me and
I shot her then, but didn't mean to
or to kill her.
2 Killed| One
Hurt By Train
THREE MEN WERE WALKING ON
THE TRACK WHEN
STRUCK BY ENGINE.
CONNELLSVTLLB, Pa., Dec. 26. ?
Two men wero killed and another
probably fatally Injured when struck
by a shifting engine at Broad Ford
Station, on the Mt. Pleasant branch
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
THE DEAD.
Harry Kllngensmlth, aged 35, mar
ried.
Thomas Lostera, aged 24, single.
THE INJURED.
Jamea McNulty, aged, single; skull
fractured and Internally Injured.
? The three men were going home to
Morgan, a mining town, when the ac
cident occurred. The bodies of Kllng
ensmitli and Losters were mangled.
McNulty was brought to the Cottage
hospital here.
^ WORTHINGTON. ^
> ; ??
Miss Madge Brumage hat resumed
her duties as assistant postmaster.
Leslie F.! Davis, of'Urbana, Ohio,' Is
vlBltlsg relatives here this week.
Miss Beatrice Mclntlre, who has
been attending, tbe - Shenandoah' Col-,
leglate Instltuto at Dayton, Vai, ls at
home, for the;,holiday*. ? Jf'*'-*"*'
Frank 'B. Dent, of Fairmont,'an old.
Store of Style and Quid
Wearing Apparel
Marked, at Temptingly Low Pi
was shopping in Wortbiugton on Mon
day.
There will b cat least two tickets
in the field for the municipal election
on January 7, as a convention has
been called for Saturday evening.
John L. Brumage, of the Mounds
ville Bottling Works, is spending tha
holidays with his parents here.
The Wells-Fargo Express oftice
looks like a wholesale package estab
lishment these days. The Yost law is
certainly being violated.
Harry PreBton, who was indicted by
the recent session of the grand jury
on a forgery charge, was arrested last
week by Constable Dasnett and tak
en to Jail at Fairmont.
A warrant was Issued by JuBtlce
J. Lnne Parrish last Friday for Mas
on Wright, charged with stealing a
gold watch, jewelry and clothing.
George Nichols was the complaining
witness. So far Mr. Wright has elud
ed the officers.
HOTEL CLERKS
TO MEETDEG. 31
WILL HAVE A FINE PROGRAM
FOR THEIR ANNUAL STATE
SESSION.
P. J. WRIGHT OF THIS CITY 13
FIRST VICE PRESIDENT
OF ASSOCIATION.
PARKERSBURG, Dec. 26. ? Ar
rangements for the annual convention
of hotel clerks of West Virginia are
about completed, It was announced
Tuesday. The program embraces
many Interesting features. Last year
they met at Wheeling and next year
Huntington will probably get the call,
no Parkersburg will, this year .try
and show the boys a few things. Tho
headquarters will be at the Monroe
hotel.
The first day of the session will be
given over to greetings and enter
tainment. In the evening th -visitors
will visit a theater. On December
31. howover, they will hold their
business meeting and will have a din
ner at the Monroe. An automobile
ride will be a feature. The evening
the annual banquet will be servtd at
the Chancellor hotel. It is an
nounced thijt James R. Stokes, of
the Continental hotel, of Philadelphia
will be a guest. He is national presi
dent of the hotel clerks.
The present officers o fthe West
Virginia asoclation are: Simon
Young, Wheeling, president; P. J.
White, Fairmont, first vice president;
William Nern, Parkersburg, second
vice president; H. E. Staluaker,
secretary, and Harry McClure, oi
Wheeling, treasurer.
$5.00 REWARD
Five dollars reward will be paid for
information leading to recovery of
1916 calendars of the. West Virginian
and the Farmers Free Press taken
from the room in the Jacobs build
ing formerly occupied by the West
Virginian. The reward will be paid
for Information disclosing the name
of the party or parties ts
eudars.
. The West Virgin! aiiSc#
the largest mado. 'UiW]
ous picture, "A Honeys
Ice," and the calendars?
Identified by the printing
PILES CUREDl
BY NEW ABSOI
METHOD
If you suffer trom?bleedS
blind or protrudIngFJles?3e3!
address, and I -will tell yoUj'HC
yourself at home by tha'fisjp
treatment; and will aitfe^eSi
this homo treatment free fofl
referencos from your, ownjji
requested. Users report'lmm
lief and speedy cureB.^Sendij
but tell others of hUs^ltej
today to Mrs. M.' Sfi&meri
Notre Damo, Ind.
OUl&gm
FOR FLETCHE
cA&^ai
Cleaning, Prmiaj?,Bat>
Igidies'^ork^nffftw
post- kad
will call for it.
. 121 MAmisT.>
Opp. Colonial TKeatre.'LOvi
ber Shop.,;. B^pMeg
For Sale!
Palm Oil Feed for ht
tie. $16.00 per ton, f. o.
burg. Can makefprjonw
PHILLIP3 SHEET & Tl
CI?rk?bu'rB^W.\\
Mountain State
Cold Storage Company
ley 8prin(|?,'.-WSv?
The mort healthful,'
temperance drink.
Made from thorougl
ed, selected apples,^
the great Eastern Pan
If not carried by yoi
phone Frank Morgan
This older; h'aafggSI
the Prosecutlnlfi0)?S
Morgan CbiWyijandJW
ed by hlm aa' being^fToi
FREE ENGINEEi
ADVICE
Our Industrial Power Department ii compo
-*
the application of gu for power, either throuj
or iteam boiler.
.
We offer yon auiitance in salving your po
ont obligating yon. -
-
Our aivioe if given only after we make cs
present equipment. A report of tittup testa wi
whether yon decide, to do basinets with uj or ]
If others in you line of buises can profil
yon can alio.
There it no time like "HOW" to get the tu
*our cue. . -.-M